BARD'S RECIPE FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY

REMOTE REALITY

(Fish and Berries)

The fisher’s catch to feed our breed

With private sales, no markup greed.

Local goods to move to fore:

Poultry, pigs, sheep and more,

Veggie-plots to produce grow,

Simple ways for food to flow.

The just-in-time, the five-day-ply,

No security in food supply.

Shutter stores - the mega-brand -

That wed us to the factory farm,

That sends our cash to distant lands

To sate stock market sleight of hand.

A crowd that feasts on fish and berries

Should not want from empty ferries,

Encourage folks to grow their own

And store and salt, and bottle down:

Restore our self-sufficiency

To protect the remote reality.

John Tuach

Pynn’s Brook

May 04, 2020